As part of its Creative Cloud 2014 event, a collective update of its entire line up of desktop and mobile apps for creative professionals, Adobe staged Adobe Connect Now, which debuted the 4K video capabilities of its Premiere editing software platform. WorldStage provided extensive 4K video and engineering support for the headline-making gathering at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

Adobe Connect Now is the latest in a series of Adobe events in which WorldStage has played a key role, including multiple AdobeMAX events and Digital Marketing Summits. PIX PRODUCTIONS, the producer for this event as well as past Adobe events, brought in WorldStage to handle the complex and exacting video display requirements of the show.

"This was the first 4k signal and work flow requirement for an Adobe event and we were delighted that our client PIX PRODUCTIONS called on us for support," says WorldStage project manager Jack Dussault.

"With industry buzz centered on new, 'cutting-edge' 4K video applications, Adobe wanted to do demonstrations with a live audience, as well as have a web-streaming presence," he explains. "The challenge for us was how to display 4K video, software, video switching and manipulation between several 4K sources for a live audience in a rather intimate theater setting of about 300 people while simultaneously streaming the live feed to an expected online audience of over 60,000."

Dussault notes that WorldStage has done a lot of 4K - and larger - work in the past with projections up to 20K spanning a city block. "Almost all of our display applications exceed 2k or 4k resolutions," he says. "But these are typically sourced from multiple HD outputs. Getting 4K out of single source is still relatively unusual."

For Adobe Connect Now WorldStage "manipulated the four 1920x1080 quadrants of a native 4K signal and switched them via Vista Systems' Spyder to a true Christie 4K projector," he says. "Our engineers carefully planned and tested the signal path in our our California office before the event to reassure everyone that the system could manage this much information and behave as planned."

The display was a 50-foot screen on stage at Alice Tully Hall where video clips and graphics would showcase how Premiere editing software easily masters 4K content. "One sequence with a snowy owl looked more 3D than 3D," says Dussault. "The images were stunning, sharp, crisp and life-like."

WorldStage is known for being in the forefront of emerging technologies, and 4K video is no exception. "3D projection, Pepper's Ghost applications, wide-screen architectural mapping projections - we take on the cutting edge - and 4k source material will only push us further," says Dussault.

WorldStage Inc., the company created by the merger of Scharff Weisberg Inc and Video Applications Inc, continues a thirty-year legacy of providing clients the widest variety of entertainment technology coupled with conscientious and imaginative engineering services. WorldStage provides audio, video and lighting equipment and services to the event, theatrical, broadcast and brand experience markets nationally and internationally.

For more information on PIX PRODUCTIONS, visit www.pixproductions.com.